Books Published in August 1985

New Books List: 326 titles

  • The Beirut Retaliation

    John Cutter

  • Detroit Combat

    Carl Ramm

    A gang of pornographers turns kidnapped women into sex slaves -- and only Hawker can save them Brenda Paulie is fresh out of law school, newly married, and recently pregnant. She’s also marked to die. In an affluent neighborhood of Detroit, three m...

  • The Phoenix

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. Viet Cong Commander Ho van Tuyen has a hit list... and Casca is on it. Usi...

  • River Raid

    Eric Helm

    THE SQUAD HAS A DATE WITH CHARLIE--TO TURN THE MUDDY WATERS OF THE MEKONG A BLOODY RED! The North Vietnamese have made the Mekong River a floating artillery base, and Special Forces Camp A-555 is a nest of American sitting ducks. The Scorpion Squad...

  • The Seventh Stone

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    THE DEADLIEST STONE OF ALL A bigger chill than snow. Harder to kick than heroin. The Destroyer was stoned on star lust. Remo was losing it...and loving it...in the highly-trained arms of Kim Kiley, Hollywood sex specialist...and the hottest wea...

  • Spy for George Washington

    Jay Leibold

  • White Death

    Nick Carter

  • Billingsgate Shoal

    Rick Boyer

    After a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore, the young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found floating lifeless in the water. Doc Adams, the unhappy friend of the unlucky aquarian, is soon launched through the stormy s...

  • The Crime and the Crystal

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    A retired professor finds that an amateur sleuth’s work is never done, even on an Australian holiday in this cozy mystery with “a dandy plot” (Publishers Weekly). Andrew Basnett takes a break from his little English village to spend Christmas i...

  • The Ghost Squad Flies Concorde

    E.W. Hildick

  • The Plain Old Man

    Charlotte MacLeod

    THE CURTAIN CAME DOWN ON MURDER Aunt Emma Kelling didn't have an enemy in the world. But she did have "Ernestina"-- an invaluable old portrait inherited with Pleasaunce, her New England mansion--and a passion for producing Gilbert & Sullivan. S...

  • Adam's Daughters

    Elizabeth Villars

  • All the Marbles

    Beverly Bird

    HEARTBREAK HOTEL The inn she had inherited from her father was failing, so Jenny took a leave of absence from her prestigious job in San Francisco and headed for Little Beach, Oregon, an island as small as its name implied. It was too small, in...

  • Almost Heaven

    Carole Halston

    Still recovering from a bitter divorce, Ho Drake jumped at the chance to join her friends for a weekend of whitewater rafting in West Virginia. Yet secretly, she yearned only to see Zek McCade once more. The rugged, blue-river guide had remained f...

  • Alone, Together

    Linda A. Cooney

    Changing partners . . . Brenda's falling for Brad hook, line and sinker. Finally, she's somebody's number one. But then she learns the real reason behind all of Brad's attention. He's still hurt about his break-up with his last girlfriend, Phoebe...

  • Anna's Child

    Angel Milan

    BABE IN THE WOODS Anna Harte had a secret dream, but it was hers alone. Anna wanted a child of her own to love--but she wanted her freedom, too. An apprenticeship to a Creole Chef in New Orleans enabled her to escape the constant demands of her...

  • The Arrogant Lover

    Flora Kidd

    She felt the pull of past attraction Kathy Reid still loved Lucas MacBride, but she didn't trust him. He'd made love to her nine years ago, then left without a word. And now that the man she'd married on the rebound was dead, Lucas was...

  • As Love Would Have It

    Meg Dominique

    She couldn't resist what he offered In a tight spot, Liza Walker pretended she had a fiance. So when real lover potential happened along -- cartoonist Max Grant -- her lie trapped her into a platonic relationship. From the start her feelin...

  • The Best Reason of All

    Emily Elliott

    As executive chairman of Selby Oil, Charlene McLanahan wielded a great deal of power. She could make or break a career. And when renowned biologist Dr. Leon Leatherman appeared before her grant committee, requesting money to pursue his controversial ...

  • The Bride Said No

    Charlotte Lamb

    The bride was having second thoughts With the wedding only a day away, Miranda had more than prenuptial jitters. She felt betrayed by the two men she loved most in the world. How could her father have promised Sean control of the family busines...

  • Calling the Shots

    Kathy Alerding

    Senior trainer for the Omaha Hawks hockey team, Elaine D'Arte was accustomed to dealing with macho males. Until Roland Pantier, "The Panther," skated into her life and broke all the rules. At thirty-eight, the Edmonton Oilers star was nea...

  • A Civil War

    Beverly Sommers

    Annie didn't want to be carried back to old Virginny! It had been okay for her childhood summers, but to spend a whole year in West Virginia enrolled in some hick school and living in a backwoods cabin was just not her idea of a blast. Most of her g...

  • Comes a Stranger

    Maura Seger

    HE WAS A DARCY, and for Anthony that meant a life of obedience to an ancient code of duty and honor. He was an English nobleman, and she was merely Victoria Lombard, an orphaned American with no knowledge of her parents or her past. Or was she?...

  • Country Blue

    Marie Nicole

    SING FOR YOUR SUPPER That was just about what Dani Christopher had to do. She had thrown herself into the limo--and the lap--of Clint MacPherson, because as a top talent agent he was her last hope. Dani had dreamed of making it as a singer, but...

  • A Dangerous Passion

    Joann Robb

    Who was Jenny Winslow... and why had investigative reporter Dan McGee fallen so hard for this beautiful stranger in top secret trouble? Logic told him that love didn't come from a few days of dodging bullets and a few nights of explosive passion, bu...

  • Dark Dream

    Daphne Clair

    The engagement shocked them all Meredith Townsend had been Michael's girlfriend for years, and although he hadn't formally proposed, she'd always understood they would marry. She was stunned speechless, then, to meet his fiancee! Si...

  • Daughter of the Sea

    Emma Goldrick

    She couldn't let on she knew he was lying Rose was found washed ashore on a French Polynesian Island in the South Pacific. And although she didn't have amnesia, that was the story she presented to Giles Gengron and his daughter, Josie. It ...

  • Devil's Deception

    Doreen Owens Malek

    LIES. . . Could she love a man who lied his way into her life? Brett Devlin had a job to spy on beautiful law student Angela Patria, niece of a powerful Manhattan millionaire. Angela's Uncle Frank was suspected of smuggling drugs, and it was De...

  • The Disguise of Love

    Mary Lapietra

    ""You'll love it in Chicago, Julie!" Armed with her Bible and a college degree in Journalism, Julie Chambers left Kansas for Chicago--determined to conquer the world of mass media. But little did she dream what lay waiting in the "Windy City" to c...

  • Double or Nothing

    Lynn Patrick

    They were a terrific team--fantasy writer Valerie Lindahl and artist Anne Delaney. Together they'd found the perfect vehicle for their talents in the sexy swordswoman, Valarya the Valiant. Sometimes Valerie felt that if she could only step into the p...

  • Enter With a Kiss

    Diana Dixon

    IT DIDN'T ADD UP... Andrea Parsons liked her life as a math teacher, so why was she fighting so hard to regain her former eminence as an actress? Especially when she was going to be directed by Logan Kincaid, the only man she had ever loved. He...

  • Fire With Fire // Blackmailed by the Vengeful Tycoon

    Penny Jordan

    It occurred to him that he could use her Emma had always played the role of dependable older sister, so it was not surprising that after smashing up Drake Harwood's brand-new Ferrari, Camilla, unable to pay, expected Emma to bail her out. B...

  • Foolish Pride

    April Thorne

    PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL, and no one knew that better than horsebreeder Kendall Voss. Her farm was in trouble, but she was too proud to accept help, even from her too-attractive neighbor, Jordan Craig. Jordan was a neophyte in the horsebreedi...

  • Fortune's Child

    Cheryl Zach

    Melissa has everything: money, looks, brains and a jock boyfriend named Tank. But her parents' marriage is breaking up, and she fears no one likes her for herself. She goes through an unsteady period and finally ends up with a quiet Oriental loner wh...

  • A Gift from the Sea

    Meg Hudson

    He proved to be the perfect inspiration. Mystery writer Donna Madison had gone to Cape Cod to cure a case of writer's block. She hadn't anticipated the added attraction of a beached freighter or the instant carnival that sprang up along the shore. Hu...

  • The Great Boy Chase

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    When her best friend, Toni, talks Jill Gardner into spending summer in Europe, Jill is worried. Toni has been leading her into scrapes since they were kids, and Jill is sure their trip will spark an international disaster. But when they arrive in Fra...

  • Handyman Special

    Pamela Browning

    She changed houses into homes and loneliness into love Sage McKenna had a unique reputation in her little South Carolina town. People called upon her when their houses needed remodeling or repairs, because she could do the jobs better than anyone....

  • The Hawk of Venice

    Sally Wentworth

    If only they'd met in other circumstances "Are you accusing me of lying?" Count Berini denied all knowledge of Petra's friend Sara Hamling, the girl he'd run off with. But Petra had seen them drive away together in Carlo's ...

  • Heart of the Hunter

    Liz Grady

    Something in Leigh Bramwell's photograph alerts hardened bounty hunter Mitch utter that she's no gangster's moll. Still, he's been hired to hunt her down, and the money will be easy... But Leigh's stark terror, soft innocence, and plucky sell-reli...

  • Hidden Charms

    Lee Magner

    She'd only meant to boost her ego after the blow of a broken engagement. She'd set out to snare a man--and succeeded beyond her wildest expectations. Had it not been for a strange turn of events, she'd have surrendered utterly to Adam Locke's searing...

  • Hiding Places

    Modean Moon

    She couldn't escape the past until she found a future The only truth in Hillary Michaels's life had been her love for Anton Roeffler. ButAnton would never believe that--how could he? When she'd arrived in Altus, Arkansas, four years ago, Hillary h...

  • Hold Fast the Dream

    Lurlene McDaniel

    For ambitious TV journalist Catlin Rurke, the political platform of independent senatorial candidate Matthew Carr sparks both suspicion and curiosity. If what he says is true, he just might influence the large undecided vote and swing the election. T...

  • In Perfect Harmony

    Sharon Brondos

    There were certain occupational hazards... Sophie Matthews had learned to deal with temperamental performers working in PR. But when demanding superstar Buddy Sinclair swept into town, she had trouble just keeping her feet on the ground. Buddy'...

  • Interior Designs

    Carla Neggers

    She was a designing woman. Lizzie Olson had come all the way from Kansas to take New York by storm--beginning with high-powered literary agent Michael Wolfe. All she needed was one break, an opportunity to show off her interior-designing talents in M...

  • An Irresistible Force

    Ann Charlton

    Irresistible force meets immovable object Battle lines formed the day Fairlie commandeered the Australian construction company's giant earth mover blocking the driveway. Carson Tate had gone too far in his aim to drive out her grandmother. ...

  • Lady Surrender

    Carole Mortimer

    She was no threat to his friend's marriage At first Aaron Grantley couldn't see why his best friend would throw away eight good years of marriage for the likes of Charly Allenby. But before long he couldn't imagine any man--married or ...

  • A Little Bit of Warmth

    Jackie Black

    Torn between love for her father and concern that he might be involved in unsavory business, Laura Weymouth -- the industrialist's idealistic daughter -- fled to the family's secluded Montana hideaway. She never expected to wake at midnight t...

  • Love Lost

    Francine Pascal

  • Lucky

    Jackie Collins

    JACKIE COLLINS’ BIGGEST BESTSELLER THE FABULOUS HEROINE OF CHANCES RETURNS ... SHE'S A HOT-BLOODED BEAUTY, IN LOVE WITH POWER, HUNGRY FOR PLEASURE ... WILD, NOTORIOUS, TROUBLE ... SHE'S LUCKY With the Sensual grace of a panther, Lucky Santangelo...

  • Lucky's Woman

    Delaney Devers

    He claimed he loved her but had to leave. She said she adored him but wouldn't follow. So, with wrenching finality, roughhewn "Lucky" Verret and his ladylike wife Summer went their separate ways: he to his beloved Louisiana bayou; she to ...

  • Magic to Do

    Melinda McKenzie

    What disturbed Paul Sand most at Berkeley's Psychic Fair wasn't the phony fortune-tellers: It was his chance encounter with an elegant blue-eyed woman. When they met, Paul felt the instant magnetism that magically draws two people together across spa...

  • No Sense of Humor

    Elizabeth Alden

    IT WASN'T FUNNY, it was embarrassing! Rowen couldn't believe that her dog had taken hold of a stranger's ankle and wouldn't let go! Dave Archer seemed remarkably amused by the whole thing, but all Rowen wanted was to get away. Unfortunately--or was ...

  • One In A Million

    Kathryn Makris

  • Other Women

    Lisa Alther

    Caroline is a giver—as an ER nurse, as devoted lover to her partner, Diane, as a divorced mother of two boys, and as the daughter of world-class do-gooders—but can she accept help from others and still be herself? When trauma cases i...

  • Out of This World

    Nancy Holder

    Gary Wolf watched from across the convention hall as Kalinda. Queen of Space, greeted her adoring fans. Suddenly she looked up and met his gaze, and her reaction was astonishment at the quickening in her heart. But when they were introduced, actress ...

  • Phantom Skateboard

    Elaine Harper

    Ordinarily cautious, Anne thought that it was high time to add a little excitement to her life, so when she found strange goings-on at the old Westbrook mansion, she decided to investigate. Her curiosity led her straight to Gary Westbrook and into mo...

  • Portrait of a Lady

    Elizabeth Kary

    Museum conservator Paige Fenton has no doubt whatsoever--the painting is a forgery. And its owner, Grant Hamilton, has no reason to pursue her so intently except to buy her cooperation in the ensuing scandal. She doesn't trust him ...yet she's helple...

  • A Private Affair

    Kathy Clark

    Private Investigator Kelly McClain was an expert at capturing incriminating photographs of wandering husbands. But no quarry had yet eluded her quite so efficiently as Adam Davis. The dark, devastatingly handsome philanderer was so good at covering h...

  • Promise of the Unicorn

    Sara Craven

    He'd promised her her heart's desire For years Sophie had avoided being absorbed--however kindly--by the powerful Marchese family. Now she had to swallow pride and misgivings alike to help finance Mark's business so that they could be ...

  • The Puppet Master

    Pippa Clarke

    He might be the puppet master... But Anna was no willing marionette. She was a woman with flesh and blood and feelings. She found it hard to believe that Cristian Casas might use her to repay her brother-in-law for starting up his own Mediterra...

  • Quiet Comes the Night

    Jessica Jeffries

    TOGETHER THEY COULD HEAL THE WOUND This isn't really happening. That's what Shelley Kessner tried to tell herself the night her husband died. She hoped it was a nightmare -- but it wasn't. She needed time to think, and Vermont was t...

  • Race for the Roses

    Maxine McMillan

    WINNER TAKE ALL It was a long shot, but Adrianna Adams was willing to take a chance and spend her life savings on Sarazen, the majestic black stallion with racing potential. If she could make him into a winner, the success of her stables would be ...

  • Race for Tomorrow

    Elaine Barbieri

    SHE WAS ONLY DOING IT FOR THE MONEY! Trina Mallory was a famous and glamorous model, but that profession was only a means to support her real passion -- race-car driving. Trina loved racing for the sheer thrill of it and for the knowledge that whe...

  • Rand Emory's Woman

    Nicole Monet

    LOVE DEBT When her father's sudden death left Sara Benedict alone and facing bankruptcy, the last person in the world she wanted to depend on was business tycoon Rand Emory. Rand had promised her father to take care of her, but Sara wasn't inte...

  • Relentless Pursuit

    Eleanor Woods

    Shena McLean had done her best. She'd apologized for plowing her beat-up pickup truck into his new Lincoln. She'd tried to help him pull his car out of the ditch. But he'd accused her of being a one-woman demolition derby and had become a wild, mud-d...

  • Remember the Dreams

    Christine Flynn

    It had been five years, but things hadn't changed. Kyle Donovan still treated her like his kid sister. Toni Collins had been in love with Kyle then, and she couldn't help but remember her dreams. Kyle had been her boss, her best friend -- ...

  • The Scent of Lilacs

    Joan Hohl

    ON THE HUNT... The moment Jake met Gayle he decided that she would fit into his plans perfectly. Having set out to acquire a suitable mother for his daughters, he had no idea that he would come to desire Gayle's naive sensuality and alluring f...

  • Second Chance

    Nancy Levinson

    Joanne Trask moves from an isolated town in Alaska to California, eager to experience everything she's missed. But there's almost to much to try. Fortunately, her new home is full of cute boys like Tony Corda, who quickly offers to teach Joanne all s...

  • Secret Intentions

    Jean Hager

    It had been eight years since Dr. Anabel Dixon had laid eyes on Dr. Jud Westby -- and still she couldn't forgive him for one fatal mistake in the operating room on the night of her beloved brother's death. Now the renowned surgeon had ret...

  • The Shadowless Day

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Whether revitalizing the department store empire his grandfather had founded, or relentlessly pursuing a woman he desired, Linc Reynolds wasn't afraid to break tradition or encounter resistance--he was that sure of himself! But falling in love with h...

  • Simple Pleasures

    Lynda Trent

    CAN'T BUY ME LOVE She was just Cassie Collins, manager of the Daisy Dilly Flower Shoppe. Not an overly exciting life, but paying her phone bill and keeping Mr. Beebles, her pet gold fish, in fish food kept her happy. She wasn't the kind to become ...

  • Sky High

    Nicola West

    I'm looking for tough, experienced pilots, not young kids with their heads literally in the clouds,' Sky Darrington informed Sandie Lewis the day she showed up for a job interview -- a woman instead of a man. But having come so close to livin...

  • Something for Herself

    Dixie Browning

    When Mitchell Lyons came racing around a sharp curve on that back country road, he wrecked more than Gren Alderman's heart. The crash also delayed Gwen's plans to start a new, independent life. Forced to spend time with Mitch while her car wa...

  • Stardust and Sand

    Amanda York

    DESERT FLOWER When Ginny Hooper first met Tony on her last day at the Workin' Late Bar, she knew he was someone special--though she never would have guessed he was part of the vast DeLeon gambling empire headquartered in Las Vegas. Ginny wanted...

  • Storm and Starlight

    Lauren Fox

    Forceful and impulsive, relentless and mischievous, larger than life and thoroughly irresistible, Eric Nielson immediately captivates Maggie McGuire. Though she's come to investigate his satellite-dish manufacturing company in an entirely profess...

  • The Storm Within

    Anne Henry

    Real love began with knowledge and grew with understanding Sally Jo Hampton had borne all kinds of indignities as Sally Storm, Oklahoma City's most popular weathergirl. But when the station manager decided to change her image from simpering to sul...

  • A Stranger's Touch

    Sophie Weston

    She tried to avoid the stranger's touch Cindy Masters had been content to withdraw to her grandfather's farm in England and care for her cousins--anything to escape getting caught up in her mother's promiscuous bet-setting world. Bu...

  • Such Rough Splendor

    Cinda Richards

    Amelia has had it with contrary males! Her husband left her but won't leave her alone. Her brother denies his hair-raising escapades, but relies on her to bail him out. The last straw is Houston "Mac" McDade-the orneriest, gentlest, dumbest, smartest...

  • Suspicion

    Millie Grey

    When Cade Hamilton came looking for dancer Lita Jamison, he believed the worst about her-that she'd shot his brother Jeremy during a lover's quarrel. But instead of hating this woman he'd never met, he was overwhelmed by an explosive passion to make ...

  • Sweet Burning

    Sandi Shane

    Maggie Spencer wasn't about to let anyone play cupid for her, but she had no qualms about using her best friend's escort service to find suitable "no-strings" dates to accompany her on business functions. But when a devastatingly handsome law student...

  • Taming Maggie

    Peggy Webb

    They were destined to be adversaries from the moment they met! Preservationist Maggie Merriweather had vowed to ruin opening day of hunting season by playing "Taps" on her silver trumpet to warn the ducks away. When banker Adam Trent discovered her p...

  • Tears in the Rain

    Pamela Wallace

    Kentucky born Casey Cantre London, determined to fulfill her last request and deliver a letter to a mysterious stranger. But when she reached the home of wealthy old Lord Bredon, she was met with only coldness and anger. Vowing to solve mystery, C...

  • Thai Triangle

    Jayne Bauling

    She loved them both -- in entirely different ways Romney wanted to bridge the gulf between Kit and Justin Faulkner before it was too late. The bitter hostility of the two brothers' reunion in Thailand was threatening to destroy them all. To...

  • That Special Sunday

    Maggi Charles

    Something was missing... Paula Danvers noticed her prize possessions disappearing one by one from her table at the Cape Cod flea market. Someone was stealing the only things she had left to remember her beloved grandmother by. And someone was s...

  • Thunder Over Eden

    Emma Goldrick

    All Belle wanted was revenge on Harry Revenge for the callous way he'd treated her getting a Mexican divorce, throwing her out of the house. And he'd taken all their money! Things didn't work out that way. Instead, Belle ended up married again ...

  • To Touch the Moon

    Rosalind Carson

    TOO MUCH TO DO WAS THE NAME OF THE GAME Sabrina Prescott, an irrepressible San Franciscan, jumped at the opportunity to carry out her first full-fledged directing assignment in Tokyo. Overwhelmed by the challenge of transposing an American musi...

  • Too Much in Love

    Francine Pascal

    Hanging on for love. Bill Chase and DeeDee Gordon have been happy together for a long time. But lately DeeDee has become too dependent on Bill. She wants to do everything and go everywhere with him. Bill feels that he doesn't have any room to bre...

  • The Trouble With Caasi

    Debbie Macomber

    NO ROOM FOR LOVE Running Crane Enterprises was Caasi's whole life. Every waking minute was centered around the hotel chain. So what if her heart was vacant? Then rugged Blake Sherrill handed her his resignation, and Caasi's emotions began to somersa...

  • Undercover

    Maura Seger

    The night had a hundred eyes... The guards had locked Tyne Saunders in a cell and thrown away the key. No one knew this was all part of Tyne's plan...she wasn't both an ace reporter and a crack shot for nothing. It was Falconer Darcourt, the h...

  • Walking on Air

    Michele Robbe

    As the only woman on the ground crew for the company airship Andromeda, Alexandra Prince was used to fighting her own battles--and letting the men know what was on her mind. But when Cameron Ramsay joined the crew, the "men only" rules were suddenly ...

  • Wanderlust

    Vella Munn

    People couldn't change -- not really No matter how much Lori Black wished otherwise, she was born and bred a longer. It was a legacy she'd inherited from her father, a lumberjack of few needs and fewer words who'd taken his daughter with him as ...

  • Water Dancer

    Jillian Blake

    They were both champions, competing for the greatest prize of all -- love! Prima ballerina Avis Considine was approaching old age--at 28. An agonizing accident threatened to end her brilliant dancing career. In Keith Harding Avis saw a man wh...

  • Wild Jasmine

    Yvonne Whittal

    Nothing was the way she had imagined it! Excitement filled Sarika on the flight home to Bombay. Working in her father's firm, now that she had her degree in architecture, would earn his respect, if not his affection. To find her parents awa...

  • A Wilder Passion

    Karen Young

    OUT OF CONTROL Now that she was co-anchorwoman of the evening news, Lacey Wilder's life was far from boring. Standing in the rain, waiting for a helicopter to interview victims of an oil rig explosion was all in a day's work. But what she didn't e...

  • Windflame

    Sarah Crewe

    To college fundraiser Melissa Markham, wealthy alumnus Dakin Quarry is big game. But when she targets him for a generous bequest, he antagonizes her colleagues, disrupts the banquet she's arranged, and engineers a tryst in his hotel room. Clearly...

  • A Woman's Choice

    Rita Clay Estrada

    He was a sucker for a pretty face Sam Lewis, attorney-at-law, was immediately attracted to Catherine Sinclair -- despite her lethal reputation with men. The blond, blue-eyed siren had tearfully requested his help ... and soon devastated him with h...

  • Words from the Heart

    Natalie Stone

    The Winnebago, Wisconsin, Gazette! For Jessica.Rowen, fresh out of journalism school, it was merely a stepping-stone to the thrilling, high-powered New York publishing world. She was hot to cover the news; had a dozen good column ideas. "Miss Lovey H...

  • Bishop's Heir

    Katherine Kurtz

    "DEATH TO ALL DERYNI!" Once again the Kingdom of Gwynedd under young King Kelson found itself facing the horror of war between the Church and the Deryni. And this time, there was also the threat of revolution. Caitrin, Pretender Queen of Meara,...

  • The Book of Kells

    R.A. MacAvoy

    A majestic novel of a young artist who opens a portal in time to the turbulent age of tenth-century Ireland. THE BOOK OF KELLS is a grand tale of rousing adventures and miraculous wonders--a haunting tale of love and faith so strong it conquered time...

  • Challenge of the Wolf Knight

    R.L. Stine

  • Changer's Moon

    Jo Clayton

    The two contenders tossed the dice for the final contest. The Noris drew the Runner, the Sword, the Sorcerer, the Eve. He was pleased. The armies could march. The valley and all that was in it would be his. The Indweller drew the Kingfisher, the P...

  • Diasporah

    W.R. Yates

  • The Disappearing Dwarf

    James P. Blaylock

    Second in the fantasy trilogy set in “a magical world, magically presented . . . Having journeyed there, you will not wish to leave, nor ever forget” (Philip K. Dick).   Jonathan Bing, Master Cheeser, has been growing a b...

  • The Dream Years

    Lisa Goldstein

  • Infinity's Web

    Sheila Finch

    This is the tale of the many possible lives of Anastasia Valerie Stein which come to touch one another through a twist in the fabric of space-time: Ann, unhappy wife and mother in a world much like our own; Val, independent teacher in a timeline of s...

  • Jinian Footseer

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • One-Minute Favorite Fairy Tales

    Shari Lewis

  • The Third Book of Swords

    Fred Saberhagen

    Coinspinner, Farslayer, Mindsword, and nine more... The gods gave the Swords of Power to humankind for a game--but the swords can kill gods as well as mortals. And as the gods begin to die, the mortals find that life is not what it seemed......

  • The Time of the Annihilator

    John Morressy

  • Who's Who in Greek and Roman Myth

    David A. Kravitz

    Notes the identifying features and full family relationships of each figure in the mythologies and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, while separate entries identify places, creatures, and objects of relevant importance or note...

  • The Accident

    Dexter Masters

  • Accidental Tourist

    Anne Tyler

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize"winning author -- an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedyTravel writer Macon...

  • And Still the Earth

    Ignacio Brandao

  • The Bamboo Bed

    William Eastlake

    -- Dying in a bamboo bed, Captain Clancy hallucinates several philosophical conversations with a snake and a tiger. Meanwhile, Captain Knightbridge and Nurse Jane of the Search & Rescue Unit have sex in their helicopter -- the Bamboo Bed -- at 10,000...

  • The Belchamber Scandal

    Frances Murray

    Family disaster overwhelms Amelia Belchamber, obliging her to make a new life for herself as a Governess in the north of England. Her troubles begin when she is left alone with eight offspring, the children of her employer, cotton manufacturer, Stane...

  • Best Friends Dont Co

    Joel L. Schwartz

  • The Big Sneeze

    Ruth Brown

    The hilarious story of a sneeze that causes barnyard havoc The farmer is snoozing on the hay in his barn, surrounded by his dozy animals, when the fly buzzing around lands on his nose. Of course he sneezes, which sets off a long chain of consequence...

  • Bismarck Cross

    Steven L. Thompson

    Obsessed by the desire to reunify Germany, two military men--one West German, one East German--implement a scheme to eliminate NATO and Warsaw pact influence from the region by using nuclear blackmail...

  • Bizou

    Norma Klein

  • Blood and Dreams

    Richard Monaco

    Parsifal, a knight of the Round Table, becomes engrossed in the search for the Holy Grail while coping with his errant son, Lohengrin, who has stolen a magical sword and plans to give it to the evil Morgana...

  • Blood Island

    Peter McCurtin

  • Blood Run

    Dan Killerman

    FALLEN ANGEL ON THE RUN! Hitchhiker Lisa Stevens is as tough as a Texas coyote and as beautiful as a prairie sunset -- a combination bounty hunter Jesse Heller can’t resist. From the moment she throws her long legs across his big black Harley he...

  • Blood Run

    Alex Webb

  • Borrowed Time

    Alan Hruska

    When a computer genius and inventor of a device that may revolutionize the computer industry falls in love with a computer analyst, they unknowingly transgress the time/space restraints of their own world and enter into a parallel existence...

  • The Burnt Lands

    Richard Elliott

    After a nuclear space missile misfires causing a solar flare that devastates Earth, the President of the United States is kidnapped by German terrorists, and it is up to troubleshooter John Norris and Vice-President Julia Waggoner to get him back...

  • Busting Caps

    Nik Uhernik

  • Cagney & Lacey

    Serita Mendelson Stevens

    Two women from very different backgrounds leave their old lives behind to become police officers with the New York City Police Department, in a novel that explores the early lives of Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey and how they became a team...

  • Carpenter's Gothic

    William Gaddis

    This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand c...

  • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Cease Fire

    Jack Casey

  • Chicken Little

    Steven Kellogg

    "The sky is failing! The sky is failing!" Chicken Little and her feathered friends are all aflutter when she gets a mysterious bump on the head. Steven Kellogg's hilarious retelling and irresistible illustrations bring fresh delight to this timeless ...

  • Child of Tomorrow

    Barbara Bartholomew

    STRANDED FOREVER in a place beyond the touch of all familiar things and people, Jeanette and Amy hadn't counted on losing the timeway. But, even worse, now their friend Jesse is trapped in a world not his own. After much searching, the girls fi...

  • A Classic Death

    Amy Louise Marsland

    The murder in the south of France of the cabaret star known as "The Madwoman of Pontaillac" draws Laura and Francois LeBreton into its vortex as the dead woman's seemingly innocent secrets from the past wreak unexpected consequences...

  • Cross Currents

    Robert Rostand

  • The Crystal City

    Nancy Etchemendy

  • Dauntless

    Alan Evans

    The odds are against Commander Smith in this epic story of battle on the high seas.Autumn, 1917: Britain is just about surviving against incessant U-boat attacks, but there are mutinies in France, a revolution in Russia and stalemate on the Western F...

  • The Day Is Dark and Three Travelers

    Marie-Claire Blais

  • A Day Without Sunshine

    Les Whitten

    Reluctantly aiding a woman fight a wealthy and mysterious cartel interested in her vineyard, retired investigative reporter Aubrey Warder stumbles into a baffling conspiracy that threatens the world-wide wine industry...

  • Deadly Games

    Edward Topol

  • E.T. Storybook Green

    William Kotzwinkle

    Stripped of his powers for displaying signs of earthly corruption, E.T. must elude the elite guards of the Starcruiser fleet, escape to Earth, and guide Elliott through his awkward transition into manhood...

  • Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Animals

    Donald J. Sobol

  • The Executioner Waits

    Josephine Herbst

  • Flying to Nowhere

    John G. Fuller

  • The Forest of Peldain

    Barrington J. Bayley

    Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all - all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. ...

  • Friends Along the Way

    Julia Markus

    Betsy Lewis is an innocent abroad until she meets Alice Blanders Russo and her much younger lover, Leo Conti. Together they form a triangle of friendship and desire that will turn Betsy’s marriage -- and her principles -- upside down. Add a hilar...

  • Fright Night

    Tom Holland

  • Ghost in My Soup

    Judi Miller

    Scott's New House Is Haunted! Ten-year-old Scott’s troubles start the day he and his family move to Chagrin Falls. His best friend is now far away, he's stuck in a school he hates, and all the popular boys ignore him, Plus, strange things start ...

  • The Ghost Veronica Gray

    Ken Eulo

    They were just kids, playing in the graveyard among the rotting bones of the dead. They were just kids, playing new and explosive games, indulging in forbidden pleasures, exciting each other...and something else, something evil. They were just ...

  • Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular

    Richard Mueller

  • Good Enough to Dream

    Roger Kahn

    The true story of a year in the life of the Utica Blue Sox, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York, by the acclaimed author of The Boys of Summer.   Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Good Enoug...

  • Grandpa Bear

    Bonnie Pryor

  • The Green Hydra

    Flint Dille

    As Sagard, the reader must survive the tomb of the seven-headed Green Hydra and obtain the precious jeweled trophy that is protected by the Nightripper and the horrid lizards with silent tongues of death...

  • Green King

    Paul-Loup Sulitzer

  • Hands of a Stranger

    Robert Daley

  • The Handyman

    Penelope Mortimer

  • The Helen Oxenbury Nursery Storybook

    Helen Oxenbury

  • Hellrider

    Dan Killerman

  • The Hide and Seek Mystery

    Judy Wathen

  • Hollaran's World War

    Tim Mahoney

    Upon his return from service, Vietnam veteran Thomas Joseph Hollaran finds that his wife has left him, his home town, Newark, New Jersey, is disintegrating, and only his buddy Eddie can help him get through...

  • The House of the Prophets

    Nicholas Saudray

    In the ficticious Middle Eastern country of Marsanee, a country in the throes of revolution, an idealistic architect struggles to realize his dream of interfaith tolerance and peace, in a novel capturing the turmoil and passion of the contemporary Mi...

  • Humages

    Roberto Marchiori

  • I'll Take Manhattan

    Danielle Barlette

  • The Immigrant's Daughter

    Howard Fast

    The conclusion of the Lavette saga focuses on Barbara, now in her sixties, whose campaign for election into Congress brings excitement, the renewal of a romantic love, mortal danger, tragedy, and personal triumph...

  • In Search of Graphics

    Sandra Markle

  • In the Land of Nyx

    John Bowers

  • An Instant in the Wind

    Andre Brink

    Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker PrizeThe year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas’s final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master’s vineyard in order ...

  • Iseult

    Dee Morrison Meaney

    In all the lands of Arthur's Britain no knight could outshine Tristan of Lyonnesse. Fierce in battle, gentle on the strings of a harp, unequaled in the hunt, notorious in Tintagel's bedrooms, he seemed bound for a glorious destiny--and found ...

  • Jill

    Mary Carraway

  • Kaye Wayfaring in Avenged

    James Mccourt

  • Kindly Ones

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Bernard Taylor

  • King of the Mountain

    Adam Lassiter

  • Kingdom Come

    Michael Pye

  • Kisses That Miss and Other Awkward Moments

    Antonia Van der Meer

  • Lady's Time

    Alan V. Hewat

    Magical realism and haunting mysticism cloud the circumstances surrounding the death of Lady Winslow, a New Orleans woman of mixed racial background who passes for white in the Vermont resort where she teaches music and plays ragtime...

  • Lisa's Choice

    Patricia Aks

    Lisa's father just didn't understand; there were certain questions that a growing girl couldn't talk to her father about. After her mother's death, he had become withdrawn and bitter. Then finally, Cynthia came into Lisa and her younger brother Er...

  • Little Turtle's Big Adventure

    David L. Harrison

  • Love and Other Euphemisms

    Norma Klein

  • Lubyanka

    James Burch

  • McKenzie's Hundred

    Frank Yerby

    WAR OF HEARTS They called her Rambling Rose McKenzie, a woman so wild and sweet, so high-spirited, no man could tame her -- or resist trying. Her birthright was McKenzie's Hundred, rich Virginia acres threatened by a desperate war. Blind de...

  • Meanwhile

    Max Handley

  • Megan's Beat

    Lou Willett Stanek

  • Mighty Mizzling Mouse and the Red Cabbage House

    Friso Henstra

  • The Mind Bandits

    Stephen Mooser

    As the lone survivor aboard a wandering space station, the reader must choose between landing on an unexplored planet or tracking down the mysterious plague that has spirited away everyone aboard the space station...

  • Minnikin, Midgie and Moppet

    Adelaide Holl

  • Mischievous Meg

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Miss Know It All Returns

    Carol Beach York

  • Misty's Mischief

    Rod Campbell

  • Mitzi's Honeymoon With Nana Potts

    Barbara Williams

  • Molly Pink Goes Hiking

    Judith Caseley

  • The Mountain That Loved a Bird

    Alice Mclerran

  • My Mother Sends Her Wisdom

    Louise McLenathan

  • The Mysterious Mr. Ripley

    Patricia Highsmith

  • Mystery Of Headless Horse

    William Arden

    Ruin threatens the proud old Alvaro family! They can’t pay the mortgage on their ranch. Their house and barn have been destroyed in a suspicious fire. Their only hope is to find the family’s priceless heirloom -- a jeweled sword that mysteriously...

  • The Naylors

    J.I.M. Stewart

    George Naylor, an Anglican priest, has doubts about his faith. He goes to stay with his brother’s family, who unfortunately regard religion with some disdain and George as a bit of a joke. Enter Father Potter, sent by the establishment to regain th...

  • Nelson Makes a Face

    Burton Cohen

  • Nightcap

    J.P. Smith

  • Pity Is Not Enough

    Josephine Herbst

    "I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else,"         Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy,         wit...

  • Please Love Me

    Keith Miller